21 Best short stories books like Inheritance by Arthur C. Clarke

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Inheritance

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.16

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

"Inheritance" was first published in 1947 in issue three of New Worlds. Narrated by: Ralph Liste…

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1. New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

By: Robert Jordan

4.07

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

The prequel novel to the globally bestselling Wheel of Time series - a fantasy phenomenon The ci… read more

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"Even the mountains will be worn down with time"

-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

"Wish for something hard enough, and you could think you saw it."

-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

"Friends lightened many burdens, even those they did not know of."

-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

"The inn where she had a small room was called The Gates of Heaven..."

-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

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2. The Book

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.25

Format: 7 pages, ebook

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"He who passes the gates always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Book

"He who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Book

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3. El horror de Dunwich

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. The Tomb

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.51

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

Jervas Dudley was only a child when he found the mausoleum of the Hyde family. The place becomes ve… read more

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  • short stories
"In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Tomb

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5. Hypnos

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.42

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. One man with Oriental eyes has said that all time an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos

"Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos

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6. The Evil Clergyman

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.87

Format: 411 pages,

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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  • short stories
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7. The Star

By: H.G. Wells , Goran Lowie

4.03

Format: 453 pages, ebook

First published in the magazine The Graphic, December 1897. In January (about 1900, presumably), th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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8. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • science fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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9. Polaris

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.99

Format: 320 pages,

"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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10. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

By: H.P. Lovecraft , E. Hoffmann Price

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) published by Arkham H… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates of the Silver Key "

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

"Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, an…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

"Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small black kitte…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

"Then in the slow creeping course of eternity the utmost cycle of the cosmos churned itself into another futile completion, and all things became again as they were unreckoned kalpas before. Matter an…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

11. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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12. Pickman's Model

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first publishe… read more

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  • short stories

13. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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14. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories

15. In the crypt

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.76

Format: 666 pages, Nook

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial … read more

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  • short stories
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16. Herbert West: Reanimator

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

17. Breaking Strain (Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime, Book 1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Paul Preuss

3.75

Format: 304 pages,

When a team of scientists is trapped in the gaseous inferno of Venus, Sparta must risk her life to … read more

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18. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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19. The Doom That Came to Sarnath

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: None pages,

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20. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

21. Nyarlathotep

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Chuck BB

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Presents horror legend HP Lovecraft's short prose piece Nyarlathotep. This book presents Lovecraft'… read more

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22. The Last Question

By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None

3.78

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more

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23. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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24. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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25. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was the master of American weird fiction. First published in … read more

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26. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

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27. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • short stories
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29. The Paper Menagerie

By: Ken Liu

4.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"

-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie

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30. It's a Good Life

By: Jerome Bixby

4.09

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

What is more idyllic than a small Midwestern agricultural town? Peaksville would sound like a scene… read more

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  • short stories
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31. Inheritance

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.16

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

"Inheritance" was first published in 1947 in issue three of New Worlds. Narrated by: Ralph Liste… read more

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The Book

H.P. Lovecraft

3.25

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El horror de Dunwich

H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

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Hypnos

H.P. Lovecraft

3.42

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4.03

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William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe

3.79

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The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

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Berenice

Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

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3.87

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